I love hearing writers talk about the craft

Richard Ford never disappoints.

When Americans say classics they never think of the Greeks or the Romans. A good friend of mine encouraged me to go on a great read which has been going strong for 58 years of reading.

Bleak House is a terrific mystery, a little long but worth the trouble.

I like Ford, all the way back to Inside Sports, but he misses the mystery of time and being in E.H.

I’m sorry Richard, but you can’t be more wrong: readers don’t read for engaging language. Readers read for living other people’s life, experimenting things that otherwise they would never lived, and to explore emotions and dive into thrill and put themselves in someone else’s shoes without the risk or the consequences of doing such things in real life. That’s why they read. That’s why we read. And it’s been like that since Homer and Virgil. And it’ll be like that for centuries. For ages. Forever.

I didn’t anticipate Ford being jealous of Hemingway. Petty. Hemingway will still be a huge literary icon in 50 and 100 years.

What a Chad!

There are so many bright lights. Why bother to interview this man - let him go read his unread books - slowly - that is read slowly not go slowly.